Categories TTW Ephemera

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When Chris Jowaissis points something like this out in a session, in an IM to me and notes it on the Technobiblio Blog, it’s one to keep on your radar: http://www.opencroquet.org/ From the bit I’ve read, it’s the beginnings of what may become a 3-D collaborative online environment. Imagine, if you will, a cyber library think tank populated by all of our colleagues. There we might create and enhance learning, services and future initiatives. Wowza! The LiB is right: I’ll need to get a stylish avatar to move through these new spaces!

Overheard at CPL, concerning a libarian helping another librarian understand her teen: “I left the ‘Born with the Chip’ article on her desk…” 🙂

I could sit and listen to Stephen Abram (and Jenny Levine) talk libraries all day! Here are some of my favorites from our time together at CPL: Abram-isms: “The next step in libraries is what are we going to do to ‘trick’ our new users to use the library.” “Technology needs to take a step back, like utilities, like heat and light, and let the services and people come forward.” “You must have a vision of the future, or you will always be stuck in the present, over and over again.” “DVDs and CDs will be extinct by 2012.” (See […]

Via Sherri I am tickled that they are piloting and being so up front: “During Fall semester 2005, Ask Us Now! will pilot a new enhanced real-time reference component using AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). If you do not have the AOL Instant Messenger installed on your computer, we recommend that you use the “classic” Ask Us Now! service. Help us evaluate instant messaging with AOL’s IM software! The University Library is conducting a pilot of IM for answering your library- and research-related questions.” I hope the students, staff and faculty use the service and the library reports out on their […]

I wrote about Indiana and the study that found we are tech poor in the state last week. Here’s a neat post from Winnie, where she mentions the study as well as her experiences at IL05. Note that even a small library can have success with tech and be ahead of the game! http://allthingsw.blogspot.com/2005/11/technology-librarians-and-indiana-how.html “Now, in general, I think that New Castle and Henry County are behind in the tech wave that?s been coming at us for the past few years. But, I do think that NCHCPL is doing a good job of staying on top. For instance, Google has […]

http://www.chipublib.org/003cpl/scholars/scholars05.html (Scroll down!)

Monday morning…deep breath…

I’m off to teach all weekend at Dominican and then I’ll be at Chicago Public Library with Stephen Abram and Jenny Levine for their Scholars in Residence Program. I’ll blog when I can!

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=2181372005 Here’s the HOT part about student created content and new ways to look at learning: The school was chosen after it successfully bid to pilot the “iPodagogy” project in Scotland. Pauline Walker, the school’s deputy headteacher, said the iPod could even allow the pupils to make their own television shows, which they may then download and watch back when they want. “It’s another way of delivering school work which is exciting, rather than writing an essay,” she said. “Anything that helps to get the kids thinking will help them to learn.” Ewan Aitken, the City of Edinburgh Council’s executive […]